blue for the sky, yellow for the sunflowers.

 I never heard of this guy, Mason Clark, before.  I have been watching CNN and they have had a parade of experts one after another,  In general they gibe with what this Mason Clark has to say.  That is a long article and I wonder if you had something special he said that you want to point out.

I remember an interview with Zelenskyy on NPR a few years ago.  After Ukraine was set free from the USSR there was some turmoil and some bad men and Russkie interference.  At one point they had this awful kleptocrat who was building huge palaces all over the country.  Zelenskyy was an actor on a tv show playing a schoolteacher who somehow becomes president of Ukraine.  He did such a good job that he ran against the kleptocrat and won and became the president.  Remember way back to impeachment?  He is the guy who Trump refused to give money to that congress had allotted to fight the Russkie menace unless he smeared Hunter Biden.  Finally somebody blew the whistle and Trump was forced to give him the money.  The whistle blower got shit canned, but when the enlightened dems took over the situation was rectified.

As a sub you do whatever the absent teacher did, and that's how one day I went to a school in Ukraine Village to teach English as a second language for Ukrainians.  They were like fifth graders and had short blonde hair and they looked like little nazis, but their behavior was excellent.  

At this point the Ukrainians are doing better than expected and the Russkies not so well.  It appears to this expert that Putin is not listening to his generals, or maybe they are afraid to disagree with him.  There are some kind of talks to begin today in Belarus, and there is a three mile long convey moving south to Kiev.  I will be tuning in to CNN after I finish this post to watch the experts and the guys on the ground dodging bullets behind the Ukraine resistors.  Hoping for the best.

The best of course would be the Russian bear soundly smacked in its snout.  We would all be saluting those brave Ukrainians, but a lot of them will be dead, as will a lot of Russian soldiers who had no particular animus against the Ukrainians.  So that's not good news.

PS

I wonder if I could get some comment on Sandy Denny and her story.  And I wonder if we can hear from the other dawgs.  it has been like three weeks.  Maybe even just a comment or two?